My online shopping at Asda and Waitrose – which I have been doing August 2003 – has turned into a real chore. Apart from seeing the price of my shopping rising every week, going on those websites has become a nightmare. But could I really go back to pushing a trolley around a supermarket myself to get a cheaper grocery bill? I tried out Aldi…
Category: IN THE NEWS
Press, media, publishing – predictions for 2015
Hello to the NEW celebrities. Once celebrity status used to be confined to pop bands, film and TV stars. But all that is changing. The new celebrities have never been on TV or starred in a Hollywood movie. Instead they are ordinary people gaining thousands of followers simply tweeting about their own lives, self-promoting with stunning photos on Instagram or gaining an audience through blogging…
After TV’s Benefits Street comes Immigration Street …
As Channel 4 announces Immigration Street, I have never tried to hide my views on these documentaries. I spoke about Skint here – many of the residents felt they were stitched up by the camera crews and their lives edited to make them worse than they really are.
What do journalists think of PR Professionals?
Every day I am one of many journalists who receive releases from PR companies. Often those companies will have been paid hundreds – and sometimes thousands of pounds – by their client to promote their product or business or indeed them.
But the truth is if someone approaches me through my sell my story website Featureworld by themselves (and for free) I am much more likely to take their story on.
Channel 4’s Phil Spencer gives his view of the property market…
Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location is one of our favourite TV programmes – and here Phil Spencer gives his view… First up is there a housing price bubble at the moment?
How I went from a single mum on benefits to a property millionaire…
Vicki Wusche, 51, was once living off benefits but now lives in west London close to her family with a property portfolio worth over £2 million, three Amazon best-selling books and two property businesses to her name. Here Vicki, mum to daughters Charlie and Kimberley tells sellyourstoryuk.com how she did it… “When I got divorced […]
Do voucher codes really save money?
The idea of saving money using coupons and vouchers is by no means a new trend. Before the internet took over, most people would save money on their purchases by using vouchers that they had carefully snipped out of the local newspaper…
Are you in the top 5% of bloggers?
Does your blog receive between 30,000 and 50,000 page views a month? If so then you are in the top 5% of UK bloggers… but even then you might earn less than £10 a month…
Which job attracts the opposite sex most?
How important is your job in attracting a partner? Does a doctor rate higher than a barrister in the love stakes?’
Why fewer exposes are printed in the press these days…
As someone who runs a ‘sell my story website’, it can sometimes be hard to explain to people why they do have a story – that might even potentially make the front page of a national newspaper – but unfortunately they cannot be paid for it.